SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of professional experience in Software Quality assurance in various domains with Manual and Automation Testing, Verification and Validation and software Quality Assurance.
• Expertise in developing Test Strategy, Test conditions, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Case Design and Test Reports using business/functional requirements for both manual and automated tests.
• Excellent understanding in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with specific focus on Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle and role of QA.
• Strong expertise on Requirements Analyzing, Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution, Defect Reporting, Defect Status Reporting, Test Closure activities.
• Hands on experienced with practicing Agile Scrum Methodology in dynamic IT environment.
• Excellent experience in working with Test Management Tools like HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Expertise in problem solving, finding the root cause of the issue, Defect tracking and defect retest.
• Comprehensive knowledge using HP QTP/UFT, HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Experienced in design of test Plan, reviewing, prioritizing and executing test cases and defect logging using HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Performed System, Functional and Regression testing on different modules in latest builds using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Designed & developed automation scripts for master regression suite using HP UFT/QTP, VBScript.
• Experienced in Developing and Maintaining Data Driven and Keyword Driven Automation Framework.
• Expertize in developing reusable functions with static and dynamic Descriptive Programming.
• Extensive experience in Error Handling by developing custom error handling functions with VB Script.
• Experienced in back - end testing using SQL Queries.
• Experienced in Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Experienced in mentoring colleagues in Test Automation Development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tools: Quick Test Professional, UFT, REST API

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, Jira, Rally

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS Access

Programming Languages: VB Script, SQL, HTML, XML, JAVA

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, Jira, Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participate in daily scrum, sprint grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo and sprint retro meetings.
• Involve in User Story Sessions to provide feedback to improve the Testability of the User Stories using SMART Criteria to ensure the Requirement is Specific, Measurable, Attainable and Testable.
• Write Test Cases and execute test scripts as well as track bugs and generated Defect Report using HP ALM.
• Conduct Test Case Reviews and presented the test cases and test scenarios to the team members for all iterations.
• Analyze the User Stories and provided feedback for the Acceptance Criteria of the User Stories.
• Create Test Cases for user stories and maintained them in Rally.
• Participate in daily SCRUM meetings and gave the daily status of testing.
• Developed multiple reusable actions using UFT.
• Perform functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it with Hybrid Driven Automation Framework in UFT/QTP.
• Perform Automated Regression testing on new builds, every modification in the application using Driver Script and Task scheduler in UFT with VB Script.
• Optimize UFT scripts for Regression testing of the application for functional change and property change.
• Develop custom database checkpoints in UFT/QTP.
• Handle dynamic web object with Descriptive Programming in UFT using VB Script .
• Develop functions to handle dynamic object of the web application and solved complex Object Recognition problem.
• Develop Reusable Functions and maintained in the multiple Function Libraries based on the application’s functional component.
• Develop custom HTML report in UFT to improve the run result readability to business team and upper management.
• Prioritize the defects and the severity levels using ALM and discussed with the developers to resolve the issues.

Environment: Quality Center HP ALM, UFT, Oracle SQL, VB Script, SQL, Java, Windows

Confidential, VA

Senior Test Script Developer

• Involve in Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, System and User Acceptance testing of the client-server application.
• Led an automation test team and manual test team in transitioning and adopting automation test framework for project test procedures modernization.
• Involve in the development, maintenance, and training of a Hybrid Framework that a test team with no previous knowledge of automation testing now utilizes to complete testing.
• Work with developers in tracking and logging defects/bugs using ALM.
• Involve in writing high level and detailed test cases for Functional and Regression testing of numerous different integrated complex applications using QTP with VB Script.
• Develop custom database checkpoints and tested the backend data in SQL using UFT with VB Script.
• Develop code using Descriptive Programming in QTP whenever required to maintain and update functionality test for applications.
• Develop multiple reusable actions using UFT.
• Develop and maintained Keyword driven framework with reusable functions with VB Script using Descriptive Programming.
• Create and execute the End-to-End scenarios to test the thorough functionality of the applications.
• Participate in Release Review/Requirement Analysis and Design review meetings.
• Create Generic Functions in VB Script for client based applications.
• Convert manual test scripts to automation test scripts using UFT.
• Train manual test team in Keyword Driven Framework and accessing UFT for creating test scripts.
• Oversee execution of maintained regression UFT scripts and provided detail execution report for each execution.
• Troubleshoot UFT related scenarios with manual test team.
• Participate in all the Scrum Ceremonies like Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retro as an active Cross Functional SDET.
• Coordinate and led integration, regression with several different teams at a time for several different applications.
• Designed and implemented inbuilt web services test scripts using REST API in UFT.

Environment: Windows, UNIX, MS-Office, ALM, QTP, J2EE, Oracle, XML, SQL Server

Confidential, VA

Automation Tester

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan for System Testing.
• Created and executed Test cases according to Functional and User Requirements.
• Involved in designing and implementing of manual QA test strategy and working with automation using HP testing tools.
• Involved in preparing Test Coverage Matrix, Requirement Traceability and Requirement analysis.
• Prepared the Expected results for various reports to evaluate the functionality of the application.
• Tracked and documented the defects in ALM and reported the defects to the developers through ALM.
• Worked with developers by updating the defects and resolving them and tracking the status using ALM.
• Maintained the test log defect reports and also monitored the resolution of defects using ALM.
• Involved in developing the High level and Detailed Test cases for Functional and Regression testing using UFT using Keyword Driven Approach.
• Created database checkpoints and tested the backend data using UFT.
• Used descriptive programming whenever required and updated the scripts in UFT with VB Script.
• Developed large amount of reusable functions in UFT to handle errors, popups and system functionalities using VB Script.
• Developed Keyword driven framework with High Level and low level keyword approach to increase automation productivity using VB Script.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing on behalf of End Users at client's environment.
• Participated in Release Review/Requirement Analysis and Design review meetings.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, MS Office, J2EE, Vb Script, Oracle, SQL Server, Windows

Confidential, VA

QA Analyst

• Designed Test cases based on the requirements gathered during the Analysis phase of the SDLC.
• Analyzed various documents and Use Cases to prepare the detailed Test Plan.
• Performed Black box testing and Grey box testing.
• Tested the application compatibility in all versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers by automating the test cases.
• Performed GUI, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, UAT and Back End testing.
• Reported the bugs, e-mail notifications to the developers using the Quality Center.
• Used HP Quality Center for defect tracking in different environments.
• Written SQL queries for checking the Data Transactions and Database Integrity in both SQL Server and Oracle.
• Converted manual test scripts into test automation script using QTP with VB Script.
• Developed Scenario based scripts and GUI test Script using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Involved in Regression and System testing of the application using QTP with batch execution mode.
• Performed weekly code review with test automation team for the newly developed - automated test cases in QTP.
• Developed Customs functions to handle dynamic web objects to handle Object Recognition issue in QTP.
• Developed Generic Functions in VB Script for both Windows and Web based applications.
• Developed a Hybrid Framework using QTP.

Environment: QTP, Oracle, UNIX, Windows, QC, SQL Server, MS Office, J2EE, Vb Script

Confidential, IL

QA Tester

• Worked as a software QA in converting the requirements into manual test cases.
• Participated in validation process of the production release of the product in waterfall model.
• Performed integration and regression testing of applications and Bug tracking using HP Quality Center.
• Design implemented keyword driven framework using QTP.
• Regressed the test scenarios by parametrizing the test data for different environments and product data.
• Implemented database automation using SQL queries for the automation scripts.
• Used the QTP advance concepts, check points, pattern matching to make sure all the validations are corrected.
• Test result reporting in XML, HTML format to ease the identification of the failures for the functional testers.
• Collaborated with business analysts, testers and developed the test script more reusable to decrease the manual efforts.
• Generated QTP Scripts with Standard, Text, Bitmap, Table Checkpoints and also Synchronization Points.
• Conducted automation functionality and regression testing for each build and version using QTP.
• Actively participated in test case automation using a structured, keyword driven Framework with QTP.
• Participated in the team’s automation peer reviews.

Environment: Windows, Linux, Java, J2EE, Oracle, SQL Server, VB.Net, QTP, Test Director.